Monday, July 13, 2009,11:45 pm
The Ant and the Contact Lens
Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was scared to death, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold on the rope, and started up the face of that rock.
Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. As she was hanging on there, the safety rope snapped against Brenda's eye and knocked out her contact lens.
Well, here she is on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet below her and hundreds of feet above her. Of course, she looked and looked and looked, hoping it had landed on the ledge, but it just wasn't there.
Here she was, far from home, her sight now blurry. She was desperate and began to get upset, so she prayed to the Lord to help her to find it.
When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the lens, but there was no contact lens to be found. She sat down, despondent, with the rest of the party waiting for the rest of them to make it up the face of the cliff. She looked out across range after range of mountains, thinking of that Bible verse that says, "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth." She thought, "Lord, You can see all these mountains. You know every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help me.
Finally, they walked down the trail to the bottom.
At the bottom there was a new party of climbers just starting up the face of the cliff. One of them shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?"
Well, that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it? An ant was moving slowly across the face of the rock, carrying it.
Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist. When she told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he drew a picture of an ant lugging that contact lens with the words, "Lord, I don't know why You want me to carry this thing. I can't eat it, and it's awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do, I'll carry it for You."
At the risk of being accused of being fatalistic, I think it would probably do some of us good to occasionally say, "God, I don't know why you want me to carry this load. I can see no good in it and it's awfully heavy. But, if you want me to carry it, I will."
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called
isn't it cool when you see things in the bigger picture? (:
back to 1130 mondays, sigh!
and i went to school at 730 today!!
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ahaha, meet jiayin weicheng and yongsiang for breakfast.
& everyone was tired):
we didnt get back any results today):
so tomorrow's going to be killer when we're bombarded with all the *good news(:
(have faith have faith! haha)
i've been pms-ing for the past week,
certain things made me happy today,
certain things pissed me off,
and certain things just hurt me.
truly there is life and death in words.
and i dont mean the random 4 words we put together during lit that made poetic significance.
if only life were that simple.
whatever combination or random grouping of words,
we could somehow crap some intepretation out, haha.
everything would be considered, accepted and unrejected.
okay, if you don't understand i'm just talking rubbish. haha.
we played floorball for pe.
sigh.
its going to be our pe enrichment for the next few months.
sigh.
i can't imagine doing :
floorball theory,
learning floorbal rules,
learning floorball techniques,
practicing floorball so that we can be tested -.-
watching floorball videos.
sigh! hahaha.
i'm trying to convince myself that its fun, haha.
went to meet my mum at king albert after and helped her with grocery shopping.
family time! yay(:
i'm happy today.
today was the first day of our one week fast for nyjc! (:
honestly honestly, i was really scared when i asked them whether they wanted to do it.
but i was so so so so relieved and encouraged when most of them agreed!(:
we have not really done much together,
but i hope this will bring us closer and that God will see our hearts(:
may this be our first step to bigger and better things to come!(:
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the cry of my heart, is not to leave nyjc the same way it was when we first stepped in.
i will not spend 3 stupid years here for nothing, haha!
see our hearts Lord, feel the brokenness and God-dependence.
engineer opportunities, bring breakthroughs! (:
all we do is for You and Your house(:
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